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Apple CEO Tim Cook Publicly Comes Out as Gay in Letter Declaring Support for Equality

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Rogifan said:
Well it wouldn't be news if people stopped announcing their sexual orientation to the world. Tim Cook was not forced to do this. Most people knew he was gay and didn't care at all.
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This site alone has profiled a half dozen or more articles speculating on it. Other news venues have too. They were all prying and trying to make it news. He gave and recognized that he could use the fact and the news to help other gay individuals including those that feel ashamed with their sexuality. It's not like he could have kept it secret going on with media outlets talking about it and prying into his life. Might as well open it up so they shut up about it.
 
Macboy Pro said:
Excuse me, but what religious people are making Tim Cooks life miserable?

The reality is that the homosexual movement does not want equality. They ALREADY have that in the US. Discrimination is illegal. The true agenda is that they want everyone to tell them "its ok" and affirm it.

I am not taking a side here either way but if someone has an opinion, religious or not, they are entitled to it. They are not required to tell someone else that what they are doing is ok.
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Already have equality in the US? Last I saw, same sex marriage is still not legal in all 50 states.

As a Macrumors reader, I already knew this. There were already rumors posted about this long ago, but to the uninformed masses, this is new information.

As an APPL stockholder, this makes me nervous. This could create problems for the bottom line. Moving into new countries (like the first page post regarding Iran) could be made more difficult. Some folks here in the US could decide to buy other products just because of this.

However, as a human being, this makes me happy. People should be able to be themselves and not have to hide it. I've seen this before in my own financial company, in "liberal" New York, people not feeling like they can be themselves, talk about their significant others, etc. I just find it sad that I can talk about my wife, but another guy is uncomfortable talking about his husband/partner/boyfriend. The world has changed a lot in this regard in the last 5 years, and this is another big step in the right direction.
 
I didn't know before reading this. I think that's a good thing that there were no huge rumors of his sexuality before this and there's not much of a big deal made out of it.

I just hope people don't "over-praise" gay folks for coming out as gay. It's just the same as coming out as straight. It's about equality, which means we're shooting for a time when we treat a gay and straight guy the same if they publicly make their sexuality known.

I'm straight by the way - and my opinion of Tim has not been altered by his sexuality.
 
Who knew there were so many homophobic people here?

I'd like to thank all of you for your very own "coming out" to the rest of us as homophobic. Feel better now that we know what you are?
 
As someone who grew up in rural Mississippi and who lived in Alabama for a couple years, I think it's really awesome for someone like Tim Cook to do this, especially right after being inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor. It certainly shows the importance of having the best minds come together to propel the human race forward as opposed to handicapping the human race by leaving certain intelligent minds out of the equation.

I'm also wondering what Dr. Dre thinks about all this, considering homosexuality is not traditionally looked on with high esteem in the hip hop community. Or maybe he's too busy counting his money to care.
 
LordVic said:
You sir, have done nothing but spout pure bigotry. Open your mind and realize that the sexual orientation of another has zero impact on your life. Changes nothing about your life. Will do nothing to affect your life, and therefore, you should have nothing against it.
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The bigoted voice is yours, telling others what they should or should not believe. Why can't you have some tolerance for the beliefs of others? You have zero tolerance for any beliefs that don't mesh with your own - the dictionary definition of a bigot.

This is exactly what is wrong with the gay agenda today - it's filled with hate and intolerance. Any who doesn't goose-step to the gay agenda gets attacked. The gay agenda is using the same tactics against Christians today, that the KKK used against blacks decades ago. It's pure unfiltered hate, wrapped in a rainbow colored flag.
 
Congratulations Tim. More power (and privacy) to you.

Good to see Apple leading in Social Justice; #onlytheappleceocoulddothis !
 
HowEver said:
Who knew there were so many homophobic people here?

I'd like to thank all of you for your very own "coming out" to the rest of us as homophobic. Feel better now that we know what you are?
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Yeah, you would think people into tech would be more forward thinking. But I guess not.
 
MisakixMikasa said:
Normal is where how majority behave. Sex is betweenness and women. Marriage is betweenan and woman. If we cold tolerate homosexual, are we gonna tolerate sex between human and animal? How about human and objects?
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Personally, I feel that they should be free to do whatever they want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. So someone else wants to screw animals or a tree branch in his bedroom. What business is it of mine again? And if it happens to irritate some particularly close-minded bigot, bonus!

The hardest thing to do in this world is to live in it. So what if people never got married? If people of the same gender are happy together, that's good enough for me, and it should be good enough for you too.
 
Lylyluvda916 said:
Yes that is true but America wasn't all that open minded either. Gay marriage has only recently become legal in many states. California even had that whole prop 8 vote. He might have become more open minded or simply said things to appeal to more voters. All president candidates say things that appeal to voters so that they get elected into office. The fact is, a lot of people are more open to equality now than a few years ago. This is evident in the number of states that allow gay marriage.
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I'm not doubting more people are open to gay marriage. However the truth is the politicians are the ones who allowed it in their states. The people did not vote on it. There's a difference.
 
iPad Air said:
I certainly support him as CEO of Apple. But certainly don't support his homosexuality.
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He doesn't need your support at all about his homosexuality.
You just have to respect him as any other human being deserves to be respected.
 
Macboy Pro said:
Excuse me, but what religious people are making Tim Cooks life miserable?

The reality is that the homosexual movement does not want equality. They ALREADY have that in the US. Discrimination is illegal. The true agenda is that they want everyone to tell them "its ok" and affirm it.

I am not taking a side here either way but if someone has an opinion, religious or not, they are entitled to it. They are not required to tell someone else that what they are doing is ok.
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No they don't. In 18 states, gay couples cannot get married. In 29 states, you can be fired just for being gay. Discrimination against gays is very much legal in parts of this country.
 
chrono1081 said:
Where on earth do you get that gay people have equal rights?

We can't marry the people we love, straight people can. That's not equal.

We can get fired for being gay in many states, straight people can't. That's not equal.

It seems to me you have it in your head that gay people choose to be gay, we don't. If it was a choice I for one would be straight in a heartbeat so I could have the life I wanted but that wasn't the hand I was dealt.

If gay was a choice you wouldn't see people committing suicide over it.
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You post falls in line with my premise that human beings have much less choice than we think we have in our lives. :)
 
The problem with gay people in the US is they usually, even if they didn't start out that way, usually end up, maybe through influence of friends, end up subscribing to all this righteous left wing political crap, and then trying to shovel it on everything they touch. We've seen ample evidence of this at apple over the last year. I don't want ANY political crap, left or right or center supported with the money I give to a company. I want better devices and more R&D. I want Tim Cook to step down and turn the reins of the company to someone who loves and lives and breaths tech, and tech only.
 
I like thick hipped Ethiopian, Nigerian, or original Egyptian women please! Better yet a Jamaican woman with blue eyes.

As I've said before I am proud of the struggle of any oppressed group of people. Good job for having the guts to stand up for who you are and what you believe Cook.

I just hope that no one forgets the B and T in the community as has always happened in the past.
 
Rogifan said:
I'm having a hard time reconciling that quote from Tim Cook and his feeling that he needed to make his sexuality public. His sexuality has nothing to do with being CEO of Apple. And if we're not defined by our gender why does he feel the need to tell the world he's gay? Especially if he really values his privacy? We're long past the point where coming out really mattered. Everybody knew he was gay and nobody cared. I see this as more of a distraction than anything else.
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If you're really curious, he goes into details of this in the letter.
 
I'm proud of you Tim. I respected his decision to never address it if he never wanted to but it appears he did. :)
 
dime21 said:
Yikes, no. Gays are not equals. A man is not interchangeable with a woman.

This is not one of his finer moments. "Don't ask don't tell". Nobody wants to hear about your bizarre bedroom behavior. As CEO of a business, he should know better than to share such things publicly.
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He didn't say anything about bedroom behavior. Keep your fantasies to yourself.
 
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